Chicago Manual of Style's 17th edition

The Seventeenth Edition of The Chicago Manual of Style arrived in the mail yesterday. There are many changes to update this edition from 2010’s sixteenth edition. Some noteworthy changes:

• guidance on using they as a gender-neutral way to refer to a specific person (5.48)
• removed the hyphen from email (7.89)
  
• internet, no capital I (7.80)
• guidance on PDF annotations  (2.119)
• guidance on nonbreaking and other types of spaces (6.119)
• new examples of currency showing Chinese currency and bitcoin (9.23)
• sanctions US as a noun (10.32)
• coverage of metadata and keywords (throughout, see 1.75, 1.93, 1.111, 1.120)
• added guidance for self-published authors and how they can benefit from following procedures once only followed by traditional publishers (throughout, especially chs. 1–4)

"Massive new searchable database of federal court opinions, including ones that haven’t been formally published"

"Massive new searchable database of federal court opinions, including ones that haven’t been formally published" The database is maintained by Free Law Project and is available here. Eugene Volokh explains here.

Volokh: "Judgment" predominates over "Judgement" in American English

Volokh: "Judgment" predominates over "Judgement" in American English. He uses Google Ngrams to demonstrate. Also, the reverse continues to be true, but less so, in British English, "judgment" predominated in British English until the 1800s, and American legal writers use "judgment" over "judgement" even more than other American writers.